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>> For God’s sake we win Texas right now. <<
Are you under the misconception that host cities reward the parties they host with votes?

>> It will cost Cleveland a ton of money to have the convention. <<
See.. you explained for yourself why that doesn’t happen.

Here’s the thing: It’s costing Cleveland a ton of money because Cleveland has become a small, de-industrialized nobody. They have a police force who won’t control the mobs, a breaking-down infrastructure, and a downtown which while being not as bad as its reputation by far is a place where no-one wants to go, Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame notwithstanding. They don’t even have any malls in Cleveland anymore. They’re going to build a Potemkin village for the national spotlight, and anything they build will go to waste as soon as the convention moves on.

Tulsa, yes, even Tulsa, has far fewer suburbs, so it’s a little misleading to say it’s a much bigger city, even though the official population is much larger. But it’s a growing city. With thriving businesses that will benefit from the exposure.

You want a swing state? Albuquerque, Virginia Beach, Colorado Springs, FRICKIN’ PITTSBURGH, which isn’t much less liberal in the city limits, but actually has conservatives.

In another forum, I would never use this proxy, but do you know how many white people live in Cleveland? 100,000. There used to be 700,000. At least Pittsburgh still has twice as many. Oklahoma City has four rimes as many.

(Why that proxy? Because when an industrial inner city loses its white population, but not its black population, its because its lost its jobs base and market. No, I’m not saying blacks tend to be living off of welfare, but I am saying that inner-city blacks in quickly disappearing cities are. You know what I said about being unfair to compare cities instead of metropolitian areas for population? Here’s why it’s not entirely unfair: There’s a reason people leave cities for the suburbs.)